Codigo Internacional de la Edificacion 2003

Siguiendo la estela de algunos títulos ya clásicos de Francis D. K. Ching, como Manual de dibujo arquitectónico y Arquitectura. Forma, espacio y orden, este nuevo libro, escrito en colaboración con Ian M. Shapiro, expone en forma de manual básico ilustrado, práctico y accesible, las cuestiones fundamentales de la arquitectura ecológica y sostenible. El libro propone un recorrido del exterior al interior: comienza por el emplazamiento y su entorno, sigue por las diversas envolventes del edificio, y termina con el análisis de los aspectos ambientales de la iluminación, la calefacción...

The present research work is based on original manuscripts and testimonies from architect González Gortázar (b. Mexico) regarding his transcendent architecture and urban designs. González Gortázar is considered at present one of the most important architects of México, creator of spaces and urban art that are now geometric symbols and references of the city of Guadalajara in México. The architect strongly practices the concept of "Space and Art" and where the city should never loose their social function for which it was originally conceived and constructed.

Hospitals and health centers are a unique category of architecture with clearly defined characteristics. Health architecture must offer imaginative, constructive responses and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special type of facility: planning, budgets and space as well as the idiosyncrasies arising from each particular field of health. New Health Facilities presents the best examples of health architecture constructed in recent years and each of the architects demonstrates a solid understanding of the need to...

This volume features 25 architectural works constructed in Chile by architect Valdés between 1963 and 2007. It also comprises a series of texts that the author gathered after several conversations with the architect from 2001 to 2006, in a first-hand account of the creative process established by the architect about design, material, construction and space.